The Writings of John Burroughs, Volume 10Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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... was like talking about the universe , and it is so . There is somewhat incommensurable in his works . One may not hope to speak the final word about him , to sum him up in a sentence . He is so palpable 23 PRELIMINARY.
... was like talking about the universe , and it is so . There is somewhat incommensurable in his works . One may not hope to speak the final word about him , to sum him up in a sentence . He is so palpable 23 PRELIMINARY.
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... speaks of her as " The lustrous orb , Venus contralto , the blooming mother , Sister of loftiest gods . " Some of his poems were written at the opera . The great singers evidently gave him clews and sug- gestions that were applicable to ...
... speaks of her as " The lustrous orb , Venus contralto , the blooming mother , Sister of loftiest gods . " Some of his poems were written at the opera . The great singers evidently gave him clews and sug- gestions that were applicable to ...
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... speak to every one on the road , was strong upon him . One tipsy man in a buggy responded , ' Why , pap , how d ' ye do , pap ? ' We talked of many things . I recall this remark of W. , as some- thing I had not before thought of , that ...
... speak to every one on the road , was strong upon him . One tipsy man in a buggy responded , ' Why , pap , how d ' ye do , pap ? ' We talked of many things . I recall this remark of W. , as some- thing I had not before thought of , that ...
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... speak so emphatically as did this incomplete sketch . I thought it all the more significant in this case because Whitman laid such stress upon the human body in his poems , built so extensively upon it , curiously identifying it with ...
... speak so emphatically as did this incomplete sketch . I thought it all the more significant in this case because Whitman laid such stress upon the human body in his poems , built so extensively upon it , curiously identifying it with ...
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... speak without check , with original energy . The only checks are those which health and wholeness demand . Its standards are those of the natural universal . Its method is egocentric . The poet never goes out of himself , but draws ...
... speak without check , with original energy . The only checks are those which health and wholeness demand . Its standards are those of the natural universal . Its method is egocentric . The poet never goes out of himself , but draws ...
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Página 191 - My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death. Creeds and schools in abeyance, Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten, I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy.
Página 54 - Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet, Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome? Then I chant it for thee, I glorify thee above all, I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly. Approach strong...
Página 54 - For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love — but praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death. Dark mother always gliding near with soft feet, Have none chanted for thee a chant of fullest welcome? Then I chant it for thee, I glorify thee above all, I bring thee a song that when thou must indeed come, come unfalteringly.
Página 251 - Now understand me well — it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.
Página 219 - I am the hounded slave, I wince at the bite of the dogs, Hell and despair are upon me, crack and again crack the marksmen...
Página 49 - RECONCILIATION WORD over all, beautiful as the sky, Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage must in time be utterly lost, That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world ; For my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead, I look where he lies white-faced and still in the coffin — I draw near, Bend down and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.
Página 52 - States themselves as of crape-veil'd women standing, With processions long and winding and the flambeaus of the night, With the countless torches lit, with the silent sea of faces and the unbared heads With the waiting depot...
Página 286 - And surely go as much farther, and then farther and farther. A few quadrillions of eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span or make it impatient, They are but parts, anything is but a part. See ever so far, there is limitless space outside of that, Count ever so much, there is limitless time around that.
Página 141 - The pure contralto sings in the organ loft, The carpenter dresses his plank, the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp, The married and unmarried children ride home to their Thanksgiving dinner, The pilot seizes the king-pin, he heaves down with a strong arm, The mate stands braced in the whale-boat, lance and harpoon are ready...
Página 286 - I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems, And all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems. Wider and wider they spread, expanding, always expanding, Outward and outward and forever outward.